Description of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 349: Court document Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library These images and the content of Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library, Halper 349: Court document are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. A court document in Judeo-Arabic and legal Aramaic, under the authority of the Nagid 'Amram, whose titles and epithets fill the first nine lines (mostly in Hebrew). See Simḥa Assaf, Tsiyon VI (1941), p. 113-115; Muafaḳ ben Musa, his half-sister Shams Ubaid the wife of Shabbetai the Sicilian, and her mother Sutaita, acquit Tsarafa, the widow of Jacob from an obligation to them, which probably arose from a case of inheritance; Signed in autograph by [...] ben Abraham ha-kohen, Moses ben Jacob ha-Levi. Condition: damaged, losses in upper left corner and center-right edge, faded; verso is blank. United States Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Library Cairo Genizah Collection Halper 349 https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9940420253503681 Judeo-Arabic; Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE); Imperial Aramaic (700-300 BCE) Court document

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 34.3 X 14.3 cm Columns: 1; lines: (recto). Hebrew Oriental semi-cursive Material applied: black ink

1383 or 1384?

Fustat Cairo Genizah Collection (University of Pennsylvania. Center for Advanced Judaic Studies. Library). Cairo Genizah Collection (Dropsie College. Library). Sulzberger. Right of property (Jewish law)